Global Dimensions of STEM Education at Kalamazoo College

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Global Dimensions of STEM Education at Kalamazoo
College
Kalamazoo College Mission Statement The mission
of Kalamazoo College is to prepare its graduates
to better understand, live successfully within,
and provide enlightened leadership to a richly
diverse and increasingly complex world. As a
highly selective and nationally renowned
four-year college of arts and sciences, Kalamazoo
College has developed a tradition of excellence
in the fulfillment of this mission.  

• Goals for Education Abroad at Kalamazoo College
•  
• Whether one chooses to label these proficiencies,
  attitudes, skills, and behaviors as global or
• transnational competence (CIEE 1994, IIE 1997)
  or information arbitrage (Friedman 1999),
• the desired outcomes remain basically the same
•          a broad-based understanding of the
  world and ones place in that world
•          specific knowledge of ones own culture
  as well as
•          knowledge of peoples, customs, and
  cultures in one or more regions of the world
  beyond ones home
•          the development of individual skills
  and facilities in
• - interpersonal relations,
• - cross-cultural understanding,
• - leadership, and
• - multi-perspective analysis of information
  and situations from a variety of sources
•          and specialized knowledge in a
  particular discipline.

2002 Baccalaureate Origins of PhDs Data From the
Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS)
Consortium   All disciplines Kalamazoo College
is ranked 14th among 4-year undergraduate 17th
among all institutions   Kalamazoo College is
among the top 20 four-year undergraduate colleges
and among the top 30 for all institutions in the
following nine fields  
4-Year Undergraduate All Institutions   Life
Sciences 3rd 5th Foreign Languages 4th
5th Chemistry 5th 11th Psychology
7th 10th Sciences and Engineering
9th 11th Physical Sciences 9th 13th Computer
Science 11th 22nd Economics 15th 17th Mathematic
s 17th 25th
Kalamazoo CollegeSTEM Participation in Study
Abroad 1998-2002 Graduates Total
Study Study Graduates Abroad
Abroad BIOLOGY 190 160 84
3-2 CHEM ENGINEERING 2 1 50
CHEMISTRY 66 53 80 COMPUTER
SCIENCE 39 26 67 HEALTH
SCIENCE (pre-med) 92 75 82
MATHEMATICS 34 30 88 3-2
ENGINEERING (Physics) 17 11 65
PHYSICS 30 20 67 TOTAL
STEM Study Abroad 470 376 80
During the past 40 years approximately 9500
Kalamazoo College Students have studied abroad
for three to nine months in one of 35
countries. Since 1982, about 80
of approximately 1700 STEM graduates participated
in study abroad.
Senior Projects Abroad Country Major Project Au
stralia Biology Monitoring Coral
Reefs Australia Hlth Sci Eastern
Medicine Bahamas Biology Sea Grass
Ecosystem Ecuador Biology Bromeliad
Diversity Ecuador Biology Plants and Insects in
the Forest Canopy Ecuador Hlth Sci Health
Seminars Hungary Physics Computational
Neuroscience Japan Biology Marketing Internship
with Pharm. Co. Kenya Biology Rock
Hyrax Scotland Biology Tumor Immunology Senegal
Biology Transmission Vectors of
Malaria Thailand Biology Invertebrate Ecology
and Pesticides
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo MI
49006 www.kzoo.edu Jeffrey A. Bartz, Chemistry,
jbartz_at_kzoo.edu [phone] Paul Sotherland,
Biology, paulsoth_at_kzoo.edu , [phone] Fax
for Biology and Chemistry 269-337-7251 Joseph
Brockington, International Programs,
brocking_at_kzoo.edu, [phone] Fax
269-337-7400